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Jobs!

Today’s employment report looks good. It’s as simple as that. We don’t even need to spend time to pick apart its nuances. There aren’t many. The economy added 236,000 jobs in February. That brought the unemployment rate down to 7.7% from January’s 7.9%. Both these numbers are good news. Well, sort of. Some perspective: the […]

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Retirement Blues

Kudos to Natixis, an asset management business: they have compiled a useful index to measure how retirees fare across the globe. It looks as if the place to be is Norway. Those folks rank top. The US lags way back, just ahead of the UK. The index tries to capture a holistic view of the […]

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Better News

Yes. Aside from the distraction of the sequester lunacy there is an actual economy to concern us. Today’s reports are decent, so they are worth mentioning. According to CoreLogic, a research firm, home prices rose 0.7% in January bringing the gain over the past year to 9.7%. That’s the fastest one year rate of growth […]

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